Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-28
TELEGRAPKIC DREyITIES.

Frederick A. Gushee, pioneer Calilor-
MAN, died at Santa Cruz on Thursday, OF
pneumonia. He was 70 years of age.
The Phelps vineyard of 160 acres, in
Fresno, was purchased By a. B. Butler yes
paid S26, 900 for it.
Robert Fryer Shoemaker committed
suicide at Pasadena on Thursday, by cut
ting his wind-pipe. He leaves wife. Des-
pondency was the cause.
At the papal consistory held on Thurs
day, Monsignor Pallotte and Father Bausa
were made cardinals. Ten bishops were
preconized in France and one in Mexico.
Captain Armbrust, weight 500 pounds,
was thrown violently from horse at Viz
ginia City, New, his head striking post.
lie was not, strange to say, seriously hurt.
w. ]. Florence. the actor, has been re-
jected as a candidate for membership to
the Union Club of New York, although
proposed by Wright Sanlor and supported
by August Belmont and other prominent
men.
The striking Golfers at the village OF
Hainaut, Belgium, have attacked the troops
who were guarding the mine property.
Three lancers were wounded. An attempt
non-striker with dynamite.
The breach of promise case of Clara
Bachmuck, aged % years, against Nicholas
Meyerhofer, aged Is, in San Diego, prom
ises to be sensation. The defendant de-
clines all overtures of a settlement. The
plaintiff claims $4,000 damages.
The New York Senate refused to confirm
Colonel Fred Grants appointment as
0narantina Offioar RI1t n piatt q
incumbent says he will resign if Governor
Hill will promise to then appoint Colonel
Grant The Senate would not sanction
Platts removal.
a man in New York has been doing a
thriving business in the diamond line. He
would hire out as butler in a wealthy fam
lily. and-being a diamond setter-would
substitute paste for his mistress diamonds
and then resign his place. He played this
game on more than twenty families.
Lord Lansdowne received a cordial greet
ing on his urn % Ottawa on Thursday
Three thousand school children sang "God
Save the Queen" and Rule Britannia. "
At the close of the proceedings they sang
We'll Hang OBrien on a Sour Apple
Tree" The demonstration was most sue
cessiul.
At Elmira, Solano county, on Thursday
three children were left by their mother in
a wagon, while she entered store. The
horses ran away, throwing the children
violently to the ground, breaking the
thigh-bone of one little boy, and cutting
and bruising the others severely, but not
seriously.
A party of seven armed bandits, who had
been raiding near Tic Cano Lake Texas
were surprised by Sheriff Brito and posse
on Wednesday, and two captured. Caesa-
ria Ayalia. the leader, mounted his horse
under a heavy fire and escaped. Next
morning he and his party were ambushed
and he again escaped into the chaparral
On the same day the party attacked the
Mexican customs guard, near San Miguel
A short fight ersued, and an officer killed
one bandit. He was himself desperately
wounded.
The Chicago National Butchers Associ-
alton held barbecue al Cheltenham beach
yesterday, which is pronounced the largest
and most complete affair of the kind ever
held in this country. Six pits were dug,
each forty feet long, four feet wide and four
feet deep. In these hickory cordwood was
piled and burned down to live GOALS When
the roasting began fifty beeves and 1OO
lambs were roasted, making in all some
thing over $1,000 pounds of meat, which
with incredible quantity of fresh bread
was served free to the multitude.